What's happening
This bill requires the DMV and inspection stations to notify vehicle owners about safety recalls via website links and inspection reports.
Why it matters
Increases Consumer Awareness of Safety Issues. By requiring both the DMV and inspection stations to notify owners directly about outstanding recalls, the bill ensures that more vehicle owners are made aware of potentially dangerous defects that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Integrates Recall Checks into Routine Inspections. Because inspection stations must submit each vehicle’s VIN to check for recalls and provide a report to the owner, recall information becomes an automatic part of the inspection process, catching recalls that owners may have missed.
Creates a Paper Trail for Used Car Buyers. If a dealer owns a vehicle that’s inspected, the law obligates the dealer to give the recall report to the next retail purchaser or lessee, which helps protect used car buyers from unknowingly purchasing vehicles with unaddressed safety recalls.
Leverages Federal Safety Resources. By routing New Yorkers to the official NHTSA website (safercar.gov) for detailed recall information, the state leverages comprehensive federal data, ensuring that the recall information is accurate, up-to-date, and standardized.
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Who cares
Department of Motor Vehicles
DMV would have to post and promote a federal recall-information link, provide registration inserts and generate vehicle-specific recall reports for inspection stations.
Official vehicle inspection stations
Stations would have to submit each inspected vehicle’s identification number to DMV and deliver a printed recall report to the owner.
Motor vehicle dealers
Dealers that own inspected vehicles would have to pass the inspection report to the next retail purchaser or lessee.
Vehicle owners, buyers and lessees
They would receive inspection reports identifying applicable safety recalls and explaining that manufacturer-approved dealers may repair them.
Headline styles
Check Vehicle Recalls at Inspection
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3500
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the provision of notice to owners whose motor vehicles are subject to safety recalls
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 210-a to read as follows:
§ 210-a. Motor vehicle safety recall information. 1. The department shall make available on its internet website, a link to "http://www.safercar.gov" operated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and providing all motor vehicle safety recalls, based on motor vehicle make, model, year and vehicle identification number, issued by such administration in accordance with the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
2. The department shall promote and provide public notice of the availability of information on motor vehicle safety recalls from the department's website and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at its website: "http://www.safercar.gov". Such promotion and notice shall be provided on the department's internet website and on a separate insert provided to motor vehicle owners upon the issuance or renewal of a registration pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter.
§ 2. Subdivision (a) of section 304 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 608 of the laws of 1993, is amended and a new subdivision (b-1) is added to read as follows:
(a) No certificate or certificates of inspection shall be issued by an official inspection station until the mechanisms and other equipment, as specified in subdivision (c) of section three hundred one [(c)] of this [chapter] article, of the motor vehicle inspected are in proper and safe condition and comply with the rules and regulations of the commissioner
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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and with the laws of this state, and the emissions of such motor vehicle conform with subdivision (d) of section three hundred one of this article and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto at the time the certificate is issued.
(b-1) An official inspection station shall submit to the department the vehicle identification number of each vehicle subject to inspection. The department, after review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website "http://www.safercar.gov", shall produce and provide to the official inspection station a vehicle inspection report including a statement of any motor vehicle safety recall or recalls that the motor vehicle is subject to, that such recalls may be repaired by a motor vehicle dealer approved by the manufacturer of the vehicle, and that further information on the recalls may be obtained from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on its website: "http://www.safercar.gov". The official inspection station shall deliver such printed vehicle inspection report to the owner of the inspected motor vehicle. If the owner is a dealer, the dealer shall provide such vehicle inspection report to the next retail purchaser or lessee of the motor vehicle.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately any and all actions necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be completed by the department of motor vehicles on or before such effective date.
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